With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
- Written by Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
Governments at all levels allocate around $6 billion a year to arts and culture in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. While this is a low figure compared to the budget outlays of other wealthy nations, public support for arts funding here is, if anything, in decline.
A new Platform Paper by economist David Throsby argues...
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